# Rawdon Minor — Vanity Fair character guide

> Rawdon Minor in Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** little Rawdon, Rawdy, Rawdon Crawley the younger

**First appearance:** 0036-xxxvi-how-to-live-well-on-nothing-a-year

## Who they are

Becky and Rawdon's son, neglected by his mother but loved by his father and Lady Jane.

## In the story

### [How to Live Well on Nothing a Year](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vanity_fair_se/chapters/xxxvi-how-to-live-well-on-nothing-a-year)

Left in the care of a French nurse near Paris; his mother shows little affection for him.

### [The Subject Continued](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vanity_fair_se/chapters/xxxvii-the-subject-continued)

Lives largely neglected by his mother, finds comfort with a housemaid, and shares a close, secret bond with his father.

### [XLIV: A Roundabout Chapter Between London and Hampshire](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vanity_fair_se/chapters/xliv-a-roundabout-chapter-between-london-and-hampshire)

Visits Queen's Crawley with his mother, reveals he dines in the kitchen at home, and is awed by the grandeur of the Hall.

### [Between Hampshire and London](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vanity_fair_se/chapters/xlv-between-hampshire-and-london)

Accompanies his father to Gaunt Street and is fond of Lady Jane.

### [Sunday After the Battle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vanity_fair_se/chapters/liv-sunday-after-the-battle)

Thought of by Rawdon with affection; Rawdon gives his sleeve-buttons to Macmurdo for him.

### [In Which the Same Subject Is Pursued](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vanity_fair_se/chapters/lv-in-which-the-same-subject-is-pursued)

Little Rawdon enjoys reading about his father's governorship in the papers and spends holidays at Queen's Crawley.

### [A Vagabond Chapter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vanity_fair_se/chapters/lxiv-a-vagabond-chapter)

Consigned to the guardianship of his aunt and uncle; he grows to love Lady Jane as his true mother and writes a kind but distant letter to Becky.

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